Admittedly petty, but this kind of shit makes me irrationally* angry:
Who in the unholy
fuck decided to screw with the progress bar color by transitioning it to faggy pink?
*Apparently some colorblind people do have trouble distinguishing pinks from grays, so it actually does mess with them and I emptahize.
At least I found
this list of Ublock filters that do manage to fix it, so double-fuck google.
For so desperately trying to get people to pay for premium, they sure as hell have their priorities in order fixing what isn't broken while innovating in new ways to penalize the creators who are giving them content, and thus a platform to host ads in the first place.
Come to think of it, look at all of the streaming platforms that have introduced ad tiers: There is
no goddamn way that all of the content they host is advertiser friendly - Peacock has
Terrifier for god's sake! - and they're running ads perfectly fine.
Started getting YouTube ads again (Edge with ABP). I went into the ABP settings and noticed that this option was checked. Unchecked it and no more ads.
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In addition to what Denamian said, any third party extension that isn't Ublock Origin and has any adblocking for Youtube (including Youtube enhancers) are prone to malfunction, which is why the Ublock Origin developers recommend disabling them.
No surprise that there would eventually be some kind of middle man trying to crop up. Next thing you know, this entity will sell out and youtube etc. will use them as an endorsement and not change a single fucking thing in their content patterns.
If there wasn actual honest "standard" out there, I wouldnt mind a 30 second to a minute commercial on like youtube. But shit, Amazon hit me with 3 and 4 fucking minute commercial breaks on my TV down at the dock (its old and uses a dongle). Theres gotta be middle ground, eventually.
Given the shift in viewing habits, you would
think that the companies would have also adopted to conform to nothing more than 5
second ads that get in, get the point across, and then fuck off.
Instead, and particularly with Youtube, the "standard" is that there is no standard, only a hypocritical stance allowing damn near anything from advertisers. In line with what I was saying above regarding other streaming platforms, it's quite clear that the
platforms hold the real power because without a platform, the advertisers are going to do... what, radio? Mail out flyers? The fact that those other streaming platforms can run unfiltered, uncensored content without struggling for willing advertisers is yet another example of how rubbish Youtube and Google are at orienting a supposed subscription back towards consumers if they wanted to get people to bother.
